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18 hours ago · A major new report on the state of climate change paints a distressing picture for planet Earth, but it also points to some signs of progress. Here are the key findings.
Feb 16, 2024 · Ross Gelbspan, an investigative journalist whose reporting on climate change exposed a campaign of disinformation by oil and gas lobbyists to sow doubt about global warming — a denialism that...
1 day ago · It now stands at 0.62 per 100,000 person-years, a more than 30 per cent rise over 2023. “We have now brought the planet into climatic conditions never witnessed by us or our prehistoric ...
- The Most Assertive Report in 30 Years
- Climate Change Communication Isn’T Easy
- Remaining Hopeful
The gruelling IPCC process and an extensive author list of 234 scientistsmake IPCC reports the world’s most authoritative source of climate change information. Every sentence is powerful because each one has been read and approved by scientists and government officials from 195 countries. So when the report states “it is unequivocal that human infl...
Communicating any science is hard, but climate science has particular challenges. These include the complexities of the science and language of climate change, people’s misunderstanding of risk management, and the barrage of deliberate misinformation. The IPCC has standardised the language they use to communicate confidence: “likely”, for example, ...
To address the challenges of communicating the science, climate communicators should aim for consistent messages, draw on credible information, focus on what is known rather than the uncertainties, offer tangible action, use clear language that avoids despair, connect locally, and tell a story. To a large extent, Australian contributors to the IPCC...
Aug 9, 2021 · The report provides new estimates of the chances of crossing the global warming level of 1.5°C in the next decades, and finds that unless there are immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, limiting warming to close to 1.5°C or even 2°C will be beyond reach.
Aug 9, 2021 · Human activity is changing the climate in unprecedented and sometimes irreversible ways, a major UN scientific report has said. The landmark study warns of increasingly extreme heatwaves,...
Jul 29, 2021 · The year 2020 was the third warmest, fifth wettest and eighth sunniest on record, scientists said in the latest UK State of the Climate report. No other year is in the top 10 on all three...
